Re: tooling to perform updates to many packages in a team?

[Xavier <yadd@debian.org>]

Hi,

The salsa tool has been designed for massive updates and used successfully by some teams for massive updates such as :
- switch to DEP14
- configure IRC channel, tag-pending hooks
- ...
Raphaël used it, me too for JS Team (the --group + --all permit this)

The mr tool is used by Perl Team to clone all repos and maybe some other fearures (ask to gregoa)

Lintian-brush has problems recently, I'm no more able to use it

I don’t know glab

Best regards,
Xavier

Le 29 juillet 2025 09:35:15 GMT+02:00, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> a écrit :

Hi,

I will be looking into doing some mass updates/cleanup in the context of
the Ruby team, and was wondering: what are the useful tools in that
case?

I'm aware of:
- the salsa CLI tool (in devscripts)
- the glab package
- mr (multi repo)
- lintian-brush

What are teams typically using?

Lucas